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On Sep 29 20:32, Luke Kendall wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> So, sure, Red Hat *could* do that, but that would mean to take over
>> responsibility for something which is in the responsibility of the user
>> in the first place.  Eventually only a lawyer can make sure you comply,
>> but, apart from the responsibility, the job of a lawyer isn't exactly
>> for free.  So this is a job to redirect to *your* legal department.
>
> I don't think my four questions asked for legal advice,

In a way, yes.  Licensing is dangerous territory.  If we claim there's
no exception from A and somebody find that exception, it's a sure way
to be sued.  I, for one, can do without that.

> As an engineer, [...]

As a lawyer, [...]

I'm with you on the engineering side, since I hate to reinvent the
wheel same as you do.  However, this isn't technical, this is legal
and as such I stay away as much as possible.

>> As for licenses with commercial exceptions, personally (IANAL, and I'm
>> not speaking for Red Hat, nor for the Cygwin community at large, nor did
>> I actually search for it) I think there is none in the distro, except
>> for the Cygwin license itself.
>
> I can't see anything in http://cygwin.com/licensing.html that says  
> Cygwin can't be used for commercial purposes (thank goodness!).  Maybe  
> you meant something else.
>
>> And that only applies to exceptions from the GPL.

You ignored the above sentence, which was the important one.


Corinna

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